by Peter Barfoot | Feb 10, 2026 | Blog
If I had given any thought to the meeting before entering our church that Sunday morning, I would have expected it to be much the same as usual, other than the subject of the sermon. Why think otherwise? “This morning we’ll do things differently” our pastor announced....
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 10, 2026 | Blog
The instant release of built-up pressure in a person can be dramatic. Those old steam boilers in commercial laundries and train engines needed safety valves to release the build-up of pressure and prevent them from exploding. Likewise, we need ways to release...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 10, 2026 | Blog
bite you. Non-Christians call this Karma. The Bible tells us that life is more a cycle than a circle. It says that we reap what we sow. When a farmer sows good seed he reaps a good crop. Likewise, if we do good things for others, we receive good things from others. We...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 10, 2026 | Blog
The Spirit of the Lord once inspired me to prophesy that He was about to overthrow a government through the ballot box, democratically. I did so, even though it seemed impossible, but God did it regardless, two weeks later, just as He had said He would. God wants His...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 10, 2026 | Blog
Many years have passed since William Ernest Henley wrote in his defiant but ungodly poem “Invictus”: “Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 6, 2026 | Blog
Jesus said the world would know that we are his disciples by the love we have for one another. One good way of overcoming a tendency to be critical of other Christians is to reject the idea that the visible church is the real one. Names on church buildings mean...